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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Clare DonoghueStuart Douglas|title= The Night StalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer and During location filming for his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. Lewisham1970's finest are sent to sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the country for this outingedge of a reservoir. There's been a The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death down in Somerset. It's not , but something about the sort of whole thing you'd expect bothers Lowe, and he enlists the regional murder squad help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to get involved inhelp him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, it looks like a hit-uncovering more possible murders and-run on , seemingly, a remote road in link to death during the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving Second World War. But is there really a big four-by-four link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who didn't even know he'd done it.is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0008517061|title= The Long Arm of the LawDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fictionFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shamehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Miss MarpleThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Sherlock HolmesLivia and her daughter Diana, Poirot, Father Brown as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and so on. I'll admit relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the whole story. future she wants for herself and her daughter? The other side of For the coin shows moment they’re enjoying life in the official police doing their job present and getting their manputting the future on the back burner. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1786482126|title=Insidious Intent: The Janus Stone (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Dr Ruth Galloway) |author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's got less than three weeks to liveapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesThere was no skull. I've Was this a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the weddingritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but it was there that she met her killerDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. He said his name was David and he was charmingIt's difficult as Ruth knows, respectfulbut Nelson doesn't, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling that he was still more than a little bit in love she is pregnant with Tricia. They went on his child as a couple result of dates and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for the weekendone night they spent together some three months ago. By the end Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0008551324|title= All The Wicked GirlsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In It's unusual for anyone from the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missingHardie family to approach the police. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, Neither side likes or has any respect for the incident rocks the entire townother. It But Davie Hardie is even more terrifying set against struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the backdrop of recent crimes; for over police where the course body of the year, five young church-attending girls have gone a missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper person is buried and murderer who was responsible for the disappearance of these girls her death. This person, he promises, is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, someone big and has so far evaded captureit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Whilst And what he roams wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the streetsremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, no one is safeit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver0008405026|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, heIt's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never encountered found and the investigation ground to a case quite like this onehalt. A man Now, Richard Kiteher mother, has approached him for helpHelena, but explains that his request is quite unusualand her father are dead in their bed. You see Initially, Richard Kite isnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't trying to locate a missing person. He IS s something about the missing person. Found unconscious at positioning of the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means bodies that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his lifemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Nobody seems What looked as though it was going to know who he is, despite news be an open-and press coverage of his -shut case, and without is now a National Insurance number, he complex double murder. Kerrigan is basically 'off convinced that the grid,explanation lies in Rosalie' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Rakers disappearance: others (such as Derwent's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thingboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0571379877|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=Jane Tennison's Edward Jevons is a fullyworking-fledged detective now after her tenclass young man, obsessed with his upper-week course at Hendon: sheclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postinga theatre director. She'd like the Flying Squad, but sheHe's not got the experiencealso self-obsessed, nordemanding, it has handsome and entitled and uses Edward to be said, the necessary physical attributesrun errands for him. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampant. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and no one believes that ithe's going drunkenly confided how he feels to be over any time soonRobert. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up Most men in the latest incident in which Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a bomb killed five people - and sherelationship had begun between them but he's one not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of only two people who got them kissing in a good look at the bomberdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate EllisJo Callaghan|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Leave No Trace

|summary=In 1884 When a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow is found crucified on the story top of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the biography of case alongside her sidekick, the reclusive novelist Wynn StanilandAI detective Lock. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous booktheir AI Future Policing project. Wilkinson is doing his best Will they be able to drum up interest solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended case and he was seemingly on his way to one , potentially, out of these talks when he disappeared.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1035021803|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if IThe Antique Hunter'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come s Guide to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnIt't got s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the best of situationsEnglish country village where she grew up. Some of his friends have parted company with him She's back now because of the new-fangled Playstationa request for help from her beloved aunt, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onCarole. HeFreya's built a treehouse all by himself, former mentor and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but sheCarole's rejected it. And his best companyclose friend, the dog from the other house next doorArthur Crockleford, was injured in a hit is dead and runthe circumstances seem suspicious, and shot to be put out of its miserysay the least. In Arthur was the process of angrily demolishing reason why Freya had not been back to the treehousevillage: Arthur, she feels, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbourlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of man or pursue the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepprofession she loved. As After the title suggestssplit, there will be she worked in a very tense few days cafe, met and nights while married James (on the guilt amasses with rebound from the lad – and/or a lifetime love of living on a knife-edgeher life, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1398524085|title=Leopard at the DoorHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away Charlotte Salter was expected at school in England and finds a lot can change in 6 years. Of course she realises her motherhusband's death would alter things fiftieth birthday party but she's not prepared for never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her father's livedaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -in 'companion' Sara nor Saraher husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's son Harold sleeping father, Duncan Ackerley, in Rachel's old roomthe river. Michael It was an easy assumption for the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and now a man with his own ideasthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about to blowwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1529900360|title= Can You Hear Me?The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubledSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His mundanely stable, loving assertions that there were only open-and ordered life is rocked by -shut cases which didn't need the murder help of a young boy and the disappearance of psychologist only worked for a young womanwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who vanishes nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the woodsman she loved needed. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father The next case did look simple, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play though. Two lovers were murdered in these acts of senseless violence. Into this steps Anna, the mother swimming pool of Elia's friend, a woman bowed under remote property in Bel Air. He was the strain of life heir to an Italian shoe empire and haunted by her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia's certainty that something she is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, married to the mysteriously sensual an extremely rich man and sad Anna, Elia feels it's not the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge Italian. But which of adolescence and them was the unavoidable pull of adulthood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)178763681X|title=The King of FoolsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Having sort Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of split up with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, when getting both men and women to do what he chances to meet a married English woman, Marjoriewanted. They meet in Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next school to each otherassist Paul, she gets in the wrong one by mistakewho had a broken arm, then leaves her beach bag behindbut it didn't turn out that way. Lo The teaching - and behold they find each other at the casino, and the following day, when she arrives at problems - are all his hotel own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartturn up dead. Jean-Marie sees her Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjorieprime suspect. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1529421284|title= Death Makes A ProphetLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to check the first publication datesurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Reading the first two pagesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could easily have been written in 1967, or a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'87t convinced. Geary was a townie, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it's taken this long cold cases to resurfaceyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529425867|title=Dead in the Dark Lost and Never Found (Cooper and FryA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=ItIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's ten years since Reece Bower was accused not any of the murder of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerthose things. He's body was never found and although white, originated from a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem here. Annettetrailer park, barely educated (reading's father said that henot ''really''d seen his daughter a couple thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of days after she'd apparently disappearedshell suits and trackies. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was They're usually in difficulties lime green or was something more sinister going on? acid yellow. Then, You might wonder if you're being introduced to a decade laterpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, Reece Bower disappears without traceyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. His new partner wants some answersSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1529431735|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. There He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's plenty here to likehad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and plenty not hasn't long tolive. But good structure It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and scramjet pace keep this one flying sent to a watery grave in the final pageboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville0861541774|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Harry Garrick had been DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a successful businessman until the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden short holiday in Singapore to his wife for even the most intimate functionsmeet up with an old ally, so there Guy Trueman. Maik was not involved in a ''lot'' of surprise when, six months street brawl - he would later, maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he seemed to have taken his own lifekilled a Ghurka. One sachet of morphine granulesInitially, mixed in he faced a pot charge of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleep. Garrick appeared manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have crunched ten sachets of granules, if planned to murder the empty packets were anything to go byman. It seemed obvious that the case should Now he could be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that the widow, Roberta Garrick, and facing the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closedeath penalty. Perhaps Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineKeith Redfern|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a good husband father baby and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in they're both God and justicedelighted. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him to Joyce will be more delighted about the edge of baby when she gets past the abyssmorning sickness. McCarthy Greg is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soulapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-searching questions law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franckhis sister, a private detective with a shadowy agendaLucy, a raging cocaine habit who's struggling to make ends meet and a twisted sense of moralityher son is not thriving. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime Lucy, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Crickethe says, dripping immorality and depravity into is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his ear with a kiss nature. The police and a winkthe coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark EllisB0CK3MYJ56|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe It's the 1990s and France is occupied, thereGreg Mason's something of twenty-eight years old. He used to have a lull high-flying job in Britainthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared the nightly blitz'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but no onewhere's under any illusions the life experience that it could start again at any timebacks up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. ThereJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and illegal abortions are on the rise her parents, Oliver and not all Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of them go as they shoulda train. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as the result of a botched operation: she has no identification and no one knows who the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1838954481|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really Ryan Kennedy killed a detectivepolice officer: there's no doubt about that. He's just a normal bloke was the fifteen- though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' year- who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats old holding the gun and a collection of vinyl in a house that happens to be adjacent pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the ''Abbey'', a posh rehab place notorious for vagaries of the celebrities it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing people, even if jury system he does search for rare recordswas found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. So when an odd couple turn up And so lives must go on his doorstep requesting his help . For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in tracing the countryside but when a missing child of a 1960teenager is found on her territory she's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. That is, until he is told that drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the job would also involve tracing a rare singleorbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson1448309743|title=Sleeping in the GroundThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=It was In the sort village of display which would have been better in black and white and without a sound track, but what happened at Cronchie on the Red WeddingWest coast of Scotland, as it would come to be known, was noisy, brutal and fatalfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. A sniper on a distant hillside began shooting at The only item missing from the home is the wedding partyDevil Stone: three peoplemyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, including the bride died immediatelydeath will follow. Another The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two, including of them 'discovered' the bridegroom would die soon afterwardsbody. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to come he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to the scene. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too long'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529077699|title=Suspicion The Raging Storm (Inspector Barlach 2Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is dying. We did know thatJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, more or lessstayed for about a month and then turned up, from [[The Judge naked and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature himdead, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bedsmall boat, with a year left anchored in Scully Cove close to live. But his doctor is helping him the village of Greystone, in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeDevon. When his doctor blanches at Rosco had the sight status of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, national treasure: a story slowly starts to emergerenowned adventurer, one that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep round the Nazi alive world sailor and still practicing, under someone elseall round ''celebrity''s name. Barlach, clearly well suited to go under cover I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as someone needing to go under the knifewe'll find out, works up he could be more than a plan to check whether little bit close with money and his suspicion is correctbackground isn't exactly an open book. What's Where did he get the worst that could happen after allmoney for his first boat? – even were How did he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529427045|title=Forever and a DeathThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=35

|summary=A lot ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of time and effort goes into the average movieGasskas, but this is at least double in where the case of Bond. Each one is part so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a decade's long institution and must excelgold rush. With this The criminal underworld has not been slow in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themes, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actorscoming forward. For every successful Salander's niece'Garbage'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands that never made s mother is the latest woman in the cutarea to have vanished without trace. Donald E Westlake It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a successful thriller writer remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in his own right, but once he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut ither father's death. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1787636607|title= Two Lost BoysThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is It's a seasoned death row appeals attorneyscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Overworked, lonely, Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and feeling like she's drunk her fill of desperation looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and sadness, she takes on manage to get one final case, determined it of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will be her lastonly go as far as one of the outlying villages. Marion The woman all regret the 'Andytaxi problem' Hardy is sweet, politeparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, goodthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -natured, and a little slow, but according to the state, heher phone's also a rapist and a murdererdead. Moodie must untangle The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his aging case against the clock. She can There't save his innocence, s no option but maybe she ''can'' save his lifeto start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1405957174|title=The ObsessionA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasnFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh't always lived theres party will not end well. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi Carson. Naomi's life had The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into call the woods to see if ambulance he was hiding her birthday presentso desperately needs. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult sheWhat we don's now putting her life back together and even coping with t know is who the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's the targethappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse0008530025|title= The Woman Murder in the WoodFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her writing process to stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the art garden of gardening: 'A seed their West London home. He had an injury on the back of a plot drops into my his headwhich could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, I plant it no one has been charged with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking his murder and it through, and once 's now the green shoots come throughsubject of ''Infamous'', I water it with carea true-crime show. Hopefully several months later something beautiful A group of experts has grown.' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characters, meticulously researches been brought together to review the locations for her books evidence and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart in to take the mouth momentsinvestigation further. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths More to triumph over adversity. Invariably her well-crafted novelsthe point, whether they be historical fiction're going to do this live on camera, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellersepisode by episode. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for her latest novel There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didn It't leave me in disbelief at the denouements compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)

|summary=The body One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau liberation of Commarque, but what had she been doing the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there? She'd apparently been climbing to see the structure, but using show with some cheap and unsuitable ropefriends. Sprayed on the wall in orange paint were the letter It''IFTI''. Had she s all been intending to write more very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when she fell, but if soKerquelin, where was the paint - and man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the rope? script. Her neck had been brokenLuckily, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupid, or had she been pushed? She carried no identification his doctor is there and her fingerprints weren't known to the French police or Interpolman is whisked away in a helicopter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C F Peterson|title= Errant Blood A local doctor (Duncul Mysteriesand friend of Bruno)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgarwonders about his chances of survival but - as he's father passes awaya senior government employee, he makes the decision to return to his home in man who runs Frenchelon - the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He military has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career stepped in the army . One daughter lives nearby and survived a posting another, who lives in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifeCalifornia, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks flying in the cellars of Duncul, and with some of Glenculher father's residents would kill friends for ita pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum1529196388|title=HellfireThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the door of the caravan and surveyed the sceneOld Bailey. The mother - sheThere'd be s just one man in her thirties the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbedit's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. There Knight was blood everywhere and told that the only clue as to who had murdered them best barrister for him was a bloody footprint. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and her son Simon? You seehis pupil, Adam Green, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luckwho eventually represent him. As a child she wanted Knight's determined to be a doctorplead not guilty, but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in the area. Simondespite all Taylor-Cameron's father had left them and they were living a hand-recommendations to-mouth existence with both of them hating the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>